Trailing Point

Robert Dark

Robert Dark

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Well, I don't know if I need to post this or not after reading Mr. Fowler's article in the latest Blade.

However, this is one that a customer from Kansas ordered and I feel he knows what he wants. Maybe he knows something that we don't:D

O-1
Stabilized Buck-eye Burl
Stainless Handle Bolts and Thong Hole
OAL - 8 1/8"
Blade Tip to Handle 4"

Robert

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What matters is what the new owner thinks of it. As for me being a collector of fine knives. I like it.
Jim
 
You're going against Ed? REVOLUTION!!!!!! :eek: :p I like it, you like it, the customer likes it.... Ed didn't get paid one penny for this did he?
 
Very nice work. Love that buckeye! :thumbup:
 
Will Leavitt said:
You're going against Ed? REVOLUTION!!!!!! :eek: :p I like it, you like it, the customer likes it.... Ed didn't get paid one penny for this did he?
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Will, I ain't gonna touch that with a ten-foot pole. The last thing I need in life is to have some of the big-boys to get aggravated with little-old-me.

I will, however, say that opinions are sort of like as*holes,......... everybody has one.:D

Robert
 
Come on Robert - The little guys can get just as agrivated by the "Big Boys" too :)

Nice knife and thats an example of why I dont buy the mag anylonger for me to read. If Fowler made you think twice about making that shame on him. "The Big Boys" need to inspire people to keep trying and not think about not creating.

Good looking handle material :thumbup:
 
The sharpfinger has been a very popular tool for decades, editor's opinons aside. This is a wonderful knife in a classic pattern.
 
Well, I shan't be skinning too many buffaloes, but I've always been attracted to this design, and appreciate the skill in making it. Too my mind, anchoring oneself on broad utility alone, is a pretty slippery slope when it comes to knife making. I happen to be an amateur Civil War historian. When I see big ole 10", sometimes even D handled, primitive bowies it gives me huge grins. It's a general consensus that past the patriotic fervor, and picture taking of the start of the Civil War, soldiers on both sides quickly abandoned their giant, blacksmith bowies. They just weren't a practical camp knife. An equal problem is something any infantry soldier. modern or past, catches onto fast. When you're traveling by "shank's horse", weight matters. One of the first thing you'd ditch would be a 16" pig sticker.

I'm mixing my metaphors here, but the mystique of giant knifes that casual viewers get from Civil War daguerreotype photographs, amounts to "All hat, and no cattle".

I have an idea that past the Kbar sized bowie, all those big, anti boogie man knives so popular today have the exact same issues.
 
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